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In How to Cut Public Spending, the TaxPayers’ Alliance (TPA) – Britain’s independent campaign for lower taxes and better public services – presents the most thorough investigation yet of this vital issue and a plan to turn things around. If there’s one book people should read before the election, it’s this one on the key political
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Издател: Polity Press
There is still no consensus on who or what caused the financial crisis which engulfed the world, beginning in the summer of 2007.
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The Federalist
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Издател: Liberty Fund, Inc.
The new Liberty Fund edition presents the text of the Gideon edition of The Federalist, published in 1818, which includes the preface to the text by Jacob Gideon as well as the responses and corrections prepared by Madison to the McLean edition of 1810. The McLean edition had presented the Federalist texts as corrected by Hamilton and Jay but not
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Издател: Liberty Fund, Inc.
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Education and the State
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Издател: Liberty Fund, Inc.
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Издател: Liberty Fund
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Geoff Colvin expands upon his FORTUNE article "What It Takes to Be Great" in this positive reinforcement manifesto. The author makes the point that it's not one's learned experience, or even natural aptitude, but the training process that creates the overachievers in our society. This takes into account the fields of sports, music, business, and
The Ethics of Redistribution
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Издател: Liberty Fund
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